What was I thinking about today

Hmm... well, I just really wanted to get a blog set-up... narcissistic, I suppose.You know, work is retarded... 1/3 of your day eaten up by mundanity... all the great thoughts I had and no quick way to post, write them...Somewhere, sometime today I thought about war... Guns and bullets rather suck. And war can motivate people to do odd things. Kill, for one. No one, no matter how atrocious, deserves any death.Now, especially, war leads us to the War, in Iraq, w/ impending possibility w/ Iran or N. Korea. So many dead on each side, believing strongly in their cause... I mused once to a friend, or, perhaps more accurately, questioned rhetorically why people didn't want to go fight in Iraq. She said that it was because people were afraid to die. I didn't respond, but that seemed rather... poor, unreasonable of an answer. To me, the logic says if I am not afraid to die, then I should go to Iraq. The cause to war, I suppose, has to be worthy of a fight. But why do all the causes that seem to be worthy of a fight require beans and bullets?But, there are causes of great worth that can "take a life", that is, the natural dénouement (sorry, English word eludes me) that spans 70, 80, 90 years. Down w/ nationalism, down w/ religious superiority, down w/ crusades. Up w/ citizenship of the world, up w/ spirituality, up w/ betterment of all humanity.Hmm. Enough for now.

What was I thinking about today

Hmm... well, I just really wanted to get a blog set-up... narcissistic, I suppose.You know, work is retarded... 1/3 of your day eaten up by mundanity... all the great thoughts I had and no quick way to post, write them...Somewhere, sometime today I thought about war... Guns and bullets rather suck. And war can motivate people to do odd things. Kill, for one. No one, no matter how atrocious, deserves any death.Now, especially, war leads us to the War, in Iraq, w/ impending possibility w/ Iran or N. Korea. So many dead on each side, believing strongly in their cause... I mused once to a friend, or, perhaps more accurately, questioned rhetorically why people didn't want to go fight in Iraq. She said that it was because people were afraid to die. I didn't respond, but that seemed rather... poor, unreasonable of an answer. To me, the logic says if I am not afraid to die, then I should go to Iraq. The cause to war, I suppose, has to be worthy of a fight. But why do all the causes that seem to be worthy of a fight require beans and bullets?But, there are causes of great worth that can "take a life", that is, the natural dénouement (sorry, English word eludes me) that spans 70, 80, 90 years. Down w/ nationalism, down w/ religious superiority, down w/ crusades. Up w/ citizenship of the world, up w/ spirituality, up w/ betterment of all humanity.Hmm. Enough for now.